On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:28:31PM +0100 or thereabouts, Anders Holm wrote:
> [snip]
> > I haven't _used_ the system yet, just spent a couple of weeks
> > _configuring_
> > the thing! It will become a production system in future once it
> > gets a box
> > of its own. The disk is all I have at present to work on so I
> > just stuck it
> > into one of my own boxes. I may be having some hardware issues with the
> > current _box_ so I want to put the disk into another one to check that.
>> Ah, seems like you've had a bit of fun then.. :)
>> > AIUI, a reinstall will _wipe_ the disk (or at least the / partition) and I
> > lose all my work ot date (The backup system is what started showing up the
> > possible hardware problem in the first place).
>> Yep, a reinstall would wipe it. If you decide to format it that is. Your
> configuration files would be overwritten, IIRC, if you don't format the
> drive. One could always save them away on a different partition and leave
> that alone, if you have the space.
Yep, that's one of the possible methods I had in mind. I'll ponder the
upgrade option first (maybe _after_ tarring up the / dir...).
> > also, will the i386 packages work on the i686 machine if/when I move the
> > disk back? I know there may be performance hits but, while it will be a
> > production server, the clients will be old P166 boxes so they
> > shouldn't notice
> > too hard...
>> Yep, the i386 packages will work on any system with at least a 386 processor
> or better. As you say, you'd get a performance hit, but if you have so slow
> clients, they shouldn't really notice that too much either. What will it be
> used for? Just out of curiosity..
It and 30 donated P166s are going out to an African college to be the student
network. Mainly word processing (OOo) and email (postfix) along with NIS
and NFS for authentication and /home dirs. No Microsoft software will
contaminate these boxes.
> After installing the i386 packages, I'd test the drive in the different
> boxes you want, to make sure that you don't have hardware issues with that
> first box you mentioned there. Just keep in mind stuff like different
> hardware like network cards and the likes. If it'll serve as a server I
> wouldn't bog it down with X either.
That's a thought but it may be useful for the server to be available as a
user machine also (maybe staff only, maybew admin only). In any case, the
local admin (who doesn't exist as yet) will probably be using GUI tools rather
than cli ones...
Conor
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